Case Reports

Keywords: restriction order — new powers — no environmental permit

Statute reference: Environmental Protection Act 1990

Statute reference: Environmental Protection Act 1990 section 34(1)

Keywords: Company director liability — Illegal waste storage

Keywords: Management failings — sewage pollution — large fine

On 23 November 2018, the Environment Agency (EA) announced that it had accepted an offer from Wessex Water following a series of sewage spills. It said that Wessex Water was owner and operator of a sewage treatment works near Swanage Bay, Dorset. Between 2016 and 2017, a series of sewage spillages occurred, where an estimated 142,000m³ of sewage was discharged into the sea.

Keywords: Watercourse — noxious pollution — employee actions — strict liability

Keywords: Agricultural land — pollution — waste exemption

Nottingham Magistrates’ Court was told on 14 September 2018 that Ryan Colson, of Westfield Avenue, Heanor, Derbyshire, is the Director of Colson Transport Limited, a waste transfer company based at Bulwell Lane in Old Basford, Nottingham. In 2013, Mr Colson and his company took over the site from the previous operators. A working plan which covered the site was not updated, rendering it “inadequate”, the court was told.

Keywords: textile industry — environmental permit